The Energon Pub

[fenrir72]

How a different fist and feet from CW Computron on UW Computicon make a difference

My fist and feet set from ebay just arrived.

Good good! Definitely make the set better.

yup. The color difference isn't that far off and it doesn't make Computicon tilt/lean forward as another poster stated. Either that or it depends on the sample.

Also, The connectors are ratcheted sideways. Nice.

[Ironhidensh]

Stupid plastic Crack addiction. I really don't know why I picked these up other than they are cheap.

[shajaki]

Stupid plastic Crack addiction.

Can't that be said for all posts here?

Here was my fix yesterday...

[joeprime276]

Just ordered MP Ironhide and Prowl. Can't wait. Now someone please lock my bank account

[Ironhidensh]

Just ordered MP Ironhide and Prowl. Can't wait. Now someone please lock my bank account

We of the committee for elitist masterpiece snobs approve of this post.

[Cobotron]

Just ordered MP Ironhide and Prowl. Can't wait. Now someone please lock my bank account

We of the committee for elitist masterpiece snobs approve of this post.

As does the Plastic Crackhead Support Council of Amuricas!

[joeprime276]

I think all of us need a support council

[no-one]

I think all of us need a support council

You're in it. We support each other during difficult purchasing moments. The answer of course is always "add to cart"

Speaking of...



5pm can't come soon enough.

Edit:

@Joe,MP Prowl is a beaut I too approve

@Densh, those lil $5 chunks of plastic joy are fun and easy to buy. It's when you have $25 worth of them you start questioning your sanity.

[Cobotron]

Looks good from here Cary!

[no-one]

Looks good from here Cary!

Looks even better from here, going have a platty party tonight!

[-Kanrabat-]

Speaking of...

If it's your first time with these molds, you will have a blast!

[no-one]

Blah blah blah

If it's your first time with these molds, you will have a blast!

It is and I'm excited. I'm "live" posting pics and thoughts as I go through them on my collection thread right now. I just freed Megs.

[Bumblebee21]

Blah blah blah

If it's your first time with these molds, you will have a blast!

It is and I'm excited. I'm "live" posting pics and thoughts as I go through them on my collection thread right now. I just freed Megs.

Yes

[Kurona]

So this lovely lady decided to show up early!



It was a really lovely surprise waiting for me after coming back from class and a day in town. Amazon emailed me to say she'd be arriving Wednesday, but... looks like they were a lot faster than that; almost by a week!





The individual molds were a bit of a fun one.
To me the helicopter mold in CW is to die for and even though I now have five of them I'm not tired of it in the slightest. It's beautiful, it's intelligent, it's smart and I really wanna get together all of them at some point. So yeah, Stormclash and Skyburst are winners -in my book.
I also really liked the new take on Groove in CW and the mold they gave him so equally I'm happy with Rust Dust. Not as over the moon as other people, but I still like her and I'm totally gonna try out that gun mode later.
Jumpstream was my first time with the Breakdown mold, and... uuuuuggggggghhhhh. I thought people were exaggerating when talking about how bad this mold is, but nope. Nope. Really don't like this one. It's unfortunate because all her new parts are brilliant but the base mold itself was just such a disappointment; I wish we'd gone for a truck for her instead. But because we went Lambo, Jumpstream is now my least favourite CW toy
On a more positive note; before this set, Hot Spot was my favourite individual CW toy (that ladder assembly just makes him!), so I was very happy to get him again as what is honestly the best female transformer design Hasbro has ever put out. I'm serious, I adore Pyra Magna's design and the foot attachments at the back just give her a great silhouette. There's some QC issues at the knees though which prevent me from really liking her but at the same time it... kind of helps give her some height? It's a strange one where it's an error but it has some benefits to it.
But the true winner of this set is without a doubt in my mind Dust Up. I've experienced the Dead End mold already in Streetwise (and technically in Chromedome due to shared engineering and very similar parts), so I thought I knew all there was to know about it. But man, it's a true mark of a great toy when it is downright impossible to put her in a pose where she does not look cool. She's like some sort of badass bulky ninja - the last two words should never go together but damn if she doesn't make it work! I love her. Brilliant. Perfection. Mwah.

I will admit there have been a few QC issues with them that've annoyed me though; but maybe it's just on my figure. Aside from the aforementioned Pyra Magna; Skyburst's waist joint is EXTREMELY tight - both locking into standard for robot mode and going out of that standard is an absolute pain and you're more likely to pop off one of the ball joints before you move the waist joint. This is a real shame for arm mode, but it doesn't ruin the figure in my eyes. And while Streetwise had problems keeping his legs together in vehicle mode, Dust Up just... can't. She just can't. Don't even try it, she just can't. Somehow it works for leg mode, but even right out of the box her legs were apart in vehicle mode.

But overall? Very happy with this little group. They're amazing. (aside from Jumpstream. That mold is just so bad >:( )



Victorion, saviour of Coca Cola





And by Solus Prime, if the main event was not a wonderfully pleasant surprise. Full disclosure; going into this I was a bit worried I wouldn't fully enjoy Victorion. But I did figure that the individual bot modes and vehicles were great, and that Sword is amazing so even if I didn't like Victorion herself, I'd at least have a fantastic little gang to expand my female transformers collection.

VICTORION IS MY FAVOURITE CW COMBINER.

Now yeah, that's not exactly saying a lot when the only other two I have are Defensor and Bruticus who share a torso with her, but oh my god, from transforming the components to starting the combining phase to combining the sword and posing her I was in love. I was worried about the fat thighs? Not a problem, Defensor and Bruticus already proved to me they're far better in person. I was worried about the colour scheme being a bit gaudy? Again, in-person, it's much better and works out very nicely. I was worried about the hands being laughably tiny and the feet being small and flimsy? Well, as long as you do the helicopter arms and car legs (and please do that, the other figuration is hideous), it's not that way at all. The hands are very nicely proportioned and the feet are bigger than they look in the pictures - and the joints are VERY tight in both the toe hinge and ankle articulation, meaning she stays very well balanced. When Va'al says she's much better in person and in-hand? He's not joking. Victorion is the definition of better in-hand. One more thing, this sword is great. They make wonderful individual weapons with a lot of personality and figuring out how to combiner them was a lot of fun - and I find it difficult to say how the end result could be better, it's an absolutely badass sword.

I'm so glad I jumped on her as a couple minor QC issues and Jumpstream's robot mode aside, she's perfect. Her individual components are wonderful, the new parts - chests, arms, heads, combiner hands and feet - are all extremely well done, her weapon couldn't be better, she's surprisingly well-balanced and proportions... Victorion's a winner. Sorry Bruticus, and I can't believe I'm saying this, I've got a new favourite combiner.


Oh yeah, and no pizza this time

[Cobotron]

WOW! A whole week early?!?! From the US to the UK?!? That's AWESOME K! Congrats.
Glad you like her so much. I too was pleasantly surprised that I liked her even more than I thought I would. You're right about thee colors in-hand.

Poor Jump Stream. She's actually my favorite indy bot. I love her head sculpt, and I actually really like that mold. I'll always be in the minority on that one. No Biggie though. Not the first time.

But ya' her combined form is really cool. And dat sword!
I think I prefer coptors as arms. How 'bout you? did you try cars as arms yet?

[Kurona]

WOW! A whole week early?!?! From the US to the UK?!? That's AWESOME K! Congrats.
Glad you like her so much. I too was pleasantly surprised that I liked her even more than I thought I would. You're right about thee colors in-hand.

Poor Jump Stream. She's actually my favorite indy bot. I love her head sculpt, and I actually really like that mold. I'll always be in the minority on that one. No Biggie though. Not the first time.

But ya' her combined form is really cool. And dat sword!
I think I prefer coptors as arms. How 'bout you? did you try cars as arms yet?

I was sort of thinking about cars as arms, but they just looked too big - and the Dead End mold just cannot hold the bot legs together well for the arm mode. Plus to me the leg mode of the Breakdown mold is it's saving grace (it is an absolutely gorgeous shape), so I'd rather take advantage of that in leg mode. Plus the car bulk fits the bulk of the feet rather than the small hands.

[Cobotron]

Totally agree, and that problem with the Dead End mold not holding together is a wide spread issue for every version.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

My Dustup had that issue for like 2 days and it has gotten better. For me, I keep the coptors as legs since for some reason the pegs for the cars just don't work. She always has a massive lean with the cars as legs, and the coptors on mine can't support her sword

[Railbomb]

BIRTHDAY TOYS! I think Mindwipe is my favorite one of the bunch though I'm trying to figure out a good way to store his weapons in bat mode. The best way I've figured out is jamming it in the back of his head. I'm not a fan of the hole in his butt that it's supposed to go in.Though the behemoth I got this year for my Birthday will be posted in a sister thread shortly...

[SureShot18]

Poor Jump Stream. She's actually my favorite indy bot. I love her head sculpt, and I actually really like that mold. I'll always be in the minority on that one. No Biggie though. Not the first time.

Ya know Cobotron I think I'm in the minority too. At least for the UW Lightspeed version. I was really surprised by how much I liked the mold. Brawl is way worse in my opinion.

[Kurona]

Oh wait no yeah, forgot about Brawl. Jumpstream > Brawl. There we go, she's saved

[Cobotron]

Hooooooray! She's saved!

You know what? You'd be hard pressed to find a Transformer I actually "HATE". Like cover it in gasoline and light that **** on fire, hate. Or, you ruined Christmas forever, hate. There is definitely some movie stuff I don't need, and some Armada that just looks wrong, but hate? Naw.
Definitely not a single mold in CW that I don't think is a fun toy. Even ol' Brawl.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

That moment when you win an MP Tracks on Ebay you saw with 20 minutes left for $6.50, and there as a reserve not met

[Kurona]

Hooooooray! She's saved!

You know what? You'd be hard pressed to find a Transformer I actually "HATE". Like cover it in gasoline and light that **** on fire, hate. Or, you ruined Christmas forever, hate. There is definitely some movie stuff I don't need, and some Armada that just looks wrong, but hate? Naw.
Definitely not a single mold in CW that I don't think is a fun toy. Even ol' Brawl.

To be fair, you're like one of the least hateful guys I've ever seen. Like a great jolly forum overlord.

[shajaki]

You know what? You'd be hard pressed to find a Transformer I actually "HATE". Like cover it in gasoline and light that **** on fire, hate.

To be fair, you're like one of the least hateful guys I've ever seen. Like a great jolly forum overlord.

I know who I hate.